U.S. Rep Terri Sewell hosts a 'Congress in Your Community' town hall meeting at the Montgomery County Courthouse on Monday, Jan. 28, 2013, in Montgomery, Ala. (Montgomery Advertiser, Lloyd Gallman)

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In her first town hall with residents in Montgomery County, U.S. Rep Terri Sewell talked on Monday about gun control, immigration, the debt, and gridlock in Congress.

State lawmakers redrew congressional districts last year and Sewell, the only Democrat in Alabama's nine member congressional delegation, now represents a portion of Montgomery County for the first time.

"The partisan gridlock is real," Sewell said to those at her town hall, but added that those in the Alabama delegation work together and that, even with her as the lone Democrat, the other members go out of their way to ...